Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, could make people feel more connected to nature and less likely to endorse authoritarian views, according to new research from the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London.
The new study, published in the journal Psychopharmacology, is the first to provide experimental evidence that psilocybin treatment can lead to lasting changes in these attitudes.
Study authors Taylor Lyons and Robin L. Carhart-Harris write that “our findings tentatively raise the possibility that given in this way, psilocybin may produce sustained changes in outlook and political perspective, here in the direction of increased nature relatedness and decreased authoritarianism.”
Hmmmmm, the CIA and the military fed LSD to hundreds of unsuspecting people convinced that it would turn them into a Fascist zombie army.
Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary proved them wrong.
So we probably haven’t heard about the properties of Psilocybin, because if it’s available to be used on a large scale it might turn the world into a bunch of wild-eyed Communists. Like in communal.
That the authoritarian oligarchs would not like.
psilocybin has long-lasting benefits in a large minority of cases of intractable depression
that do not respond to other therapies
and when it’s good, it’s a joyful thing
Oh, the longing for the 1960’s………….
You do know those mushrooms still grow whenever it rains and is warmer than 40 degrees F, right?
And so what are we waiting for? Dose a cherry starburst for the good of the country…